Linux Spelunker potion doesn't highlight hellstone

[IndigoGolem]

Steam or GOG

GOG

Single Player/Multiplayer

Multi

Operating System

Linux Other

Terraria Version

1.4.4.9

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

Hellstone ore is not highlighted by spelunker potions. I haven't tried spelunker glowsticks.

Here there's some hellstone to the left of the house i'm in, and more buried in the ash to the left of the hand painting below me.
This happened in Linux Mint MATE 22.1.

 

[punchready]

I think this is intentional, because it is already very easy to find

 

[Bossmania]

Pretty sure that spelunker potions don't highlight hellstone regardless of what platform you're on.

 

[IndigoGolem]

Pretty sure that spelunker potions don't highlight hellstone regardless of what platform you're on.

It's my understanding that PC edition is PC edition whether you're on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, or whatever else. But i think it's still good practice to include that information.

I think this is intentional, because it is already very easy to find

Even if it's intentional it's a weird irregularity.

 

[Bossmania]

It's my understanding that PC edition is PC edition whether you're on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, or whatever else. But i think it's still good practice to include that information.

What I meant was regardless if you're on PC, console, or mobile, they all don't highlight hellstone. Also, I'm not a C# programmer, but isn't the idea behind C# is that the code will run exactly the same on all platforms it supports, epically since Microsoft made C# to be a copy of Java.

 

[CrimsHallowHero]

It's my understanding that PC edition is PC edition whether you're on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, or whatever else.

Also, I'm not a C# programmer, but isn't the idea behind C# is that the code will run exactly the same on all platforms it supports, epically since Microsoft made C# to be a copy of Java.

There is an interesting case where an actual difference between PC versions can be observed. However this happens due to Windows vanilla Terraria is running on different version of .NET. So differences are unlikely but not entirely impossible to occur.

 

[Windbliss🦋✨]

Not a bug. Hellstone is excluded from spelunker potions/glowsticks because it's not classified as an underground ore by code. Even though this may make the resulting hellstone difficult to see at first glance, especially in classic/retro lighting; hellstone will "spark" occasionally, giving away where it is.

 

[punchready]

There is an interesting case where an actual difference between PC versions can be observed. However this happens due to Windows vanilla Terraria is running on different version of .NET. So differences are unlikely but not entirely impossible to occur.

Notably this video misses a lot of the actual technical details. But in general, only modern .NET is cross platform, and being cross platform normally doesn't mean that things like floating point calculations are exactly the same between platforms. A good program would not be affected by this of course, but if you never give a thought to it like Terraria did, you will have some tiny differences between platforms eventually. This also happened in TF2 for example.

 

[Bossmania]

There is an interesting case where an actual difference between PC versions can be observed. However this happens due to Windows vanilla Terraria is running on different version of .NET. So differences are unlikely but not entirely impossible to occur.

So technically, the vanilla Windows edition is the inferior version.